The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Bernie and the Big Banks
The recent kerfluffle about Bernie Sanders purportedly not knowing how to bust up the big banks says far more about the threat Sanders poses to the Democratic establishment and its Wall Street wing than it does about the candidate himself.
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Fed's Kashkari, in first speech, suggests radical Wall St. overhaul
Neel Kashkari, the Fed's newest policymaker and a former Goldman Sachs exec who helped manage the government's rescue of the financial industry, called on lawmakers this week to take radical action to rein in banks and protect taxpayers.
